It Looks Like Thousands of Stars (#107)
(Featuring a two inter-leaved programs that focus on a similar theme, and contain content from the 90’s incarnation of our program that aired on KWVA in Eugene, OR: 17 April 2012 on BlasphuphmusRadio.com and 18 July 2007 on KPSU.)

Join us for a kaleidoscopic journey through layers and layers of time-traveling wonder, as we follow the earliest days of this program from the late ’90’s, through the lens of the early 2000s, as re-interpreted in 2007, and again in 2012. With Negativland with us to help us make sense of the journey, we make the simple observation that, yes, it does look like Thousands of Stars. But what does that mean?

I keep bouncing around through time and space, from radio station to radio station, and offer a mish-mash of what my show was like in the olden days, 20 years ago. While this doesn’t represent what the show was actually like to hear in the ’90’s, it comes close, and in many ways, it mimics the kinds of the shows I started doing in 2007, and ever since then.

In the ’90’s, I only had CDs and LPs. There was no pre-editing for presentation on the air. I just mixed those elements, live, without much thought as to what I was doing. I would make up themes and ideas on the spot, have friends join me, and just say whatever I wanted on the air, for fun. And it was. It got me hooked on DJing, on Radio, and on sticking with this hobby for 20 years. In many ways this is a 20th Anniversary Broadcast, but really, it only covers the first few years, a poorly documented era that only exists in poorly archived cassettes, transferred digitally. But the mixes are pure and un-edited, and remind me of a time when the computer wasn’t even something I considered an audio tool.

The time-travel schtick is all Negativland’s influence. But they’ve always been an influence, as I’m sure you can tell from listening. Perhaps, if I get really ambitious, I’ll do a similar overview of other periods in the show’s history, but the mix stuff is usually what I find the most interesting. This show has taken many, many forms, and it’s good to know that, as it changes in many ways, in other’s it stays exactly the same.

Enjoy!

 

It Looks Like Thousands of Stars

This episode contains a number of samples and edits from Negativland‘s Time Zones Exchange Project, along with a number of other Negativland & OTE samples.

HOUR 1

Part I: Intro(s)

01.) Austin FM Theme * Paco Jones * Austin FM Theme * Self-Released (2016)
02.) Dance of the Cosmo Aliens * Sun Ra * Disco 3000 * Kindred Spirits (2009)
03.) The James Bond Theme Intro * 29 April 1998 * KWVA Radio
04.) 14th Anniversary Intro * 17 April 2012 * Blasphuphmus Radio
05.) Man… Or Astro-Man? Intro * 21 April 1999 * KWVA Radio
06.) Połykacz Węży / Ewabaun / Sea Sea / Antena Krzyku * 18 July 2007 * KPSU Radio

Part II: Excuse Me Put Pardon My Re-Mix

02.) Have A Cigar Re-Mix * 05 August 1998 * KWVA Radio
03.) Back In The Days Of Canadian Sport Fishing w/ The Ramen City Kid * 08 July 1998 * KWVA Radio
04.) Dub Narcotic Sound Re-Mix * 02 September 1998 * KWVA Radio
05.) Burnsome / The Ex / Dizzy Spells * 18 July 2007 * KPSU Radio
06.) Beastie Boys “License To Ill” Backwards * 02 September 1998 * KWVA Radio
07.) Excuse Me Put Pardon My Re-Mix * 19 August 1998 * KWVA Radio
08.) Grateful Dead Backwards * 14 April 1999 * KWVA Radio
09.) April Stevens, The Weathergirl * 14 April 1999 * KWVA Radio
10.) A Minute With The Pope * 13 January 1999 * KWVA Radio
11.) Nirvana “Incesticide” Backwards * 02 September 1998 * KWVA Radio

Part III: This Fabled Island

12.) Butthole Surfers Re-Mix * 19 August 1998 * KWVA Radio
13.) This Fabled Island [Edit] / Negativland / Time Zones Exchange Project * 18 July 2007 * KPSU Radio
14.) Unwound Voice Over * 15 April 1998 * KWVA Radio
15.) Jazz Horse / Replikants * 18 July 2007 * KPSU Radio

Hour 2

Part IV: Henry Rollins, Frankie Carle and Walter Carlos Get A Drink Late At Night

16.) Henry Rollins, Frankie Carle and Walter Carlos Get A Drink Late At Night * 27 January 1999 * KWVA Radio
17.) Praise The Lord Jesus * 28 April 1999 * KWVA Radio
18.) The Quantum Edge [Edit] / Negativland / Time Zones Exchange Project * 18 July 2007 * KPSU Radio

Part V: Face

19.) School Cancelations * 10 February 1999 * KWVA Radio
20.) Face Re-Mix * 02 September 1998 * KWVA Radio
21.) Metalica “Kill ‘Em All” Backwards * 02 September 1998 * KWVA Radio
22.) The Cosmos Group * 18 July 2007 * KPSU Radio

Part VI: The Cremation of Sam McGee

23.) Mertz Commercial * 29 April 1998 * KWVA Radio
24.) The Cremation Of Sam McGee * 23 December 1998 * KWVA Radio
25.) The Passing Of Dick Clark w/ Holden Craft & The Pope * 13 January 1999 * KWVA Radio
26.) Hovercraft Outro * 27 May 1998 * KWVA Radio
27.) Vanity Fair / Mr. Bungle / California * 18 July 2007 * KPSU Radio
28.) Unwound Outro * 13 May 1998 * KWVA Radio
29.) 14th Anniversary Outro * 17 April 2012 * Blasphuphmus Radio